. Fourteen weeks in zoology. Zoology. CLASS ATES: ORDER BAPTORES. 133 ful claws of the carnivorous mammals find their counterpart in the hooked beak and powerful talons of the carnivorous birds. The plumage of the sexes is usually unlike, and the ofEspring for two or three seasons resembles the mother-bird. The male of most species is smaller than the female, and not quite so plain in its color. The order is thus tabulated into Families: RAPTORES. \ EYES DIRECTED FORWAED ; EYES LATERAL; HEAD FEATHERED EYES LATERAL ; HEAD NAKED ; I OOTER TOE HEVEHSIBLE, I Claws sharp. â Claws blunt. Strigidee,
. Fourteen weeks in zoology. Zoology. CLASS ATES: ORDER BAPTORES. 133 ful claws of the carnivorous mammals find their counterpart in the hooked beak and powerful talons of the carnivorous birds. The plumage of the sexes is usually unlike, and the ofEspring for two or three seasons resembles the mother-bird. The male of most species is smaller than the female, and not quite so plain in its color. The order is thus tabulated into Families: RAPTORES. \ EYES DIRECTED FORWAED ; EYES LATERAL; HEAD FEATHERED EYES LATERAL ; HEAD NAKED ; I OOTER TOE HEVEHSIBLE, I Claws sharp. â Claws blunt. Strigidee, OwL Falconidffi, Haxcli. Cathai'tidBe, Vulture. Fig. «i. Strigidse.*âThe Owls comprise about two hundred spe- cies. The sexes are colored alike, and the mottled markings are âj nearly as apparent in the young as i the old. Many species, however, are dimorphous (double form) in So soft and downy are the feathers, that in its nocturnal 1 foraging the owl's flight is noiseless' as a shadow ; while its acute sense of hearing detects the feeblest tread of a mouse. Living upon in- jurious vermin, it deserves protec- tion from the ruthless war waged against it. The owl is the only bird that can bring both eyes simul- taneously to bear upon an Bubo virginianus, G?eat-homed Owl. r\ maDds animal food. Their place in the economy of nature ia therefore as fixed as that of the animals on which they prey; and to associate with them notions of cruelty and rapine is unwarrantable and irreverent. They do not, it is true, charm our ears by their songs, nor delight our eye with their colorsâfor either would betray their presence to their victims and frustrate the design of their creationâbut they faithfully perform their mission as scavengers. They also, like the caraivora gcner; ally, serve to prevent the undue increase of the Herbivora. * This extensive family is cosmopolitan, several species being circumpolar, and at least two existing all over the world, unless Aust
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